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Annotation LXXVIII, Whether God can be seen by the angels (Genesis 6:9)

“Noah a just man, and perfect.”

Annotatio LXXVIII

”Noah a just man, and perfect.” — Genesis 6:9

Chrysostom, at the end of the 23rd homily on Genesis, explaining this, has this proposition:1 “The flashing majesty of the divine glory neither the Cherubim nor those incorporeal powers can see; but they cover their opposed faces, their wings being set against [it].” The Armenian heretics, who taught that God is not seen by the blessed, used this and very many other similar sentences of Chrysostom;2 the elucidation of which you have in Annotation 182 of the following book.

Footnotes

  1. Right margin: Whether God can be seen by the angels. (Deus an ab angelis videri possit.) ↩

  2. Right margin: The Armenians denied that God is seen by the blessed. (Armeni negarunt Deum videri à beatis.) ↩

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Sixtus of Siena, O.P., “Annotation LXXVIII, Whether God can be seen by the angels (Genesis 6:9),” in Annotations on the Old Testament, English translation, Mind of the Church, https://mindofthechurch.com/works/bibliotheca-sancta/079-annotation-lxxviii-whether-god-can-be-seen-by-the-angels-gen/.

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